Improving Memory And Study Skills : Advances In Theory And Practice - 02 edition

"Herrmann, Raybeck, and Gruneberg provide students and teachers alike with an innovative new approach to the cognitive processes involved in learning and memory. This book will be an invaluable resource for students who have yet to master the study skills necessary for success in higher education."

-- Richard C. Atkinson, President of the University of California

"A timely book written by well-known experts in the field of applied memory research."

-- Boris M. Velichkovsky, Professor, Department of Applied Cognitive Research, Dresden University of Technology, Germany

"Improving Memory and Study Skills looks at how psychologists study the crucial processes of learning, studying, and memory improvement in higher education. By carefully examining the nature of the phenomena under consideration the contributors identify the latest scientific knowledge in the field. In doing so, they skillfully illuminate fundamental ideas for understanding (a) how information is stored in memory and retrieved; (b) how the world around a person, and physical and emotional states of a person, affect their performance; (c) how one improves one's memory and study skills. "Written in a lively style and full of up-to-date examples, Improving Memory and Study Skills offers plenty of advice to today's consumers of educational practice. It will undoubtedly become an essential resource for a broad array of students and their teachers. Improving Memory and Study Skills is a much-needed textbook and highly recommended to anyone who is seriously interested in information and practical guidance for memory improvement."

-- Elke van der Meer, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

"This book is a treasure trove of references concerned with applied aspects of memory science, but it is also a self-help manual designed for readers who are not only looking for methods that will help them to improve their own memory skills, but are also hoping to understand why those methods are so effective. It is impossible to put this book down without wondering why it has taken so long for somebody to get around to writing it."

"Congratulations are due to Douglas Herrmann, Douglas Raybeck, and Michael Gruneberg for having so worthily formulated, and attained, this most timely and useful objective."

-- David J. Murray, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Hogrefe & Huber Publishing Web Site, June, 2003

Psychology of studying
Evaluation
Memory conditioning
Social contexts
Mental manipulations
External aids
Workable evaluations
Task-specific manipulations
Study-specific manipulations
Study savvy